I do have all Cygwin packages on my PC. I assume that I must specifically "activate" syslogd?
But why? If the same info is in now the Windows event log, what else would be learned? Thanks. Lester :Lester Ingber wrote: : :> In /etc/cygserver.conf I set :> kern.log.syslog yes :> and restarted the cygserver service. :> I then started my startxwin.sh. :> :> I still have an empty /var/log/cygserver.log file, with the same :> errors in Event Viewer -> Application. : :You need to install syslogd (part of inetutils) or syslog-ng, otherwise the messages will go to Windows event log. :-- :Ren? Berber -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/